[Talk-ca] Named railway locations
Hi I have always just used place=locality, see http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=56.5643012523651lon=-94.0601348876953zoom=16. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Named railway locations
2012/2/21 Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr: Sam Place=locality tag is reserved for populated areas. It is misleading to use it for a milestone. I suggest to adapt the highway=milestone tag for railways. This type of tag is showed at lower zoom levels.= Continue this discussion on the tagging list. If a good reason exists to use unique Canadian tagging, we can do that. Ignorance of the international consensus is not a good reason. :-) ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
[Talk-ca] Named railway locations
We recently had a discussion on the talk-ca list about named railway locations that had been tagged as railway=station (see this thread). It was proposed to take the discussion to the tagging list in order to come to a consensus that's consistent and in line with other countries. To quickly summarize the issue: there are a lot of railway=station tags in places where there is no train station. Instead, they are what has been described as follows: FYI, I work for a railway for what it's worth. Pretty much every 10 miles or so is a named location. I wouldn't tag it as a station but a POI seems appropriate to me as a railroader :-) Rail fans would also use the POI as reference points for photography and video. Trains communicating with the dispatcher use these locations to identify their location. Us railway folks, these name POI are part of our general conversation, such as 73 is approaching Ridout. The names are chosen using a similar process as say bridge names. The could refer to a respected employee or as a memorial to an employee who died while on duty. Around Ingersoll are Blain and Lihou who where engineers who died in a head on train collision. Two examples in Montreal can be seen here (Cape and Bridge) http://osm.org/go/cIrPCS5Q The various pages on railway tagging don't seem to provide an obvious tag for this situation, presumable because these named points don't exist in many other countries. It has been suggested to use the generic place=locality tag, but that doesn't seem to be ideal to me. Does anyone have suggestions on how to tag? Harald. -- Please use encrypted communication whenever possible! Key-ID: 0x199DC50F ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Named railway locations
How about (for a node) railway=station passenger=no OR railway=named_location OR railway=poi -- Matthew Buchanan -- Kamloops, BC The various pages on railway tagging don't seem to provide an obvious tag for this situation, presumable because these named points don't exist in many other countries. It has been suggested to use the generic place=locality tag, but that doesn't seem to be ideal to me. Does anyone have suggestions on how to tag? http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Named railway locations
I like the railway=named_location because that, to me, is an accurate representation of reality. --G -Original Message- From: Matthew Buchanan matthew.ian.bucha...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:16:00 To: Harald Kliemskli...@gmail.com Cc: tagg...@openstreetmap.org; Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Named railway locations ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
